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Has anyone even been to a final?

I wanna go to 2008 in austria but it seems like a lot of organising and a lot of money.

How much are group stage tickets normaly?

Are you taking about the final itself or the tournament as a whole?

I went to Euros in '04 and WC in '06. The cost was tiny to be fair.

Got cheap room and flight for Portugal, total cost was £450, split between 2 for a week. We did have to eat and what not, but if i remember correctly it cost us no more than £400 each for a week.

The WC was even cheaper. We camped (slept in the car) and drove. Think it cost me about £200 max, for a week. That trip was helped in part by fuel being paid by a third party and having a porn-star pad for free in Belgium for a few days.

Even so, excluding tickets, i felt the cost was small.

Portugal was amazing. We booked five random matches at 5 different stadia. Was the best holiday i've ever had. Seeing different teams, sitting with different supporters I'd recommend it to anyone.

Book through UEFA in advance and you're laughing.

Think you may find it hard to get tickets for the Poland games, as you have to apply through uefa ages ago (its a similar system which was used for Germany world cup with fifa).

I went to Austria when Poland played them in the world cup 2006 qualifying group stages.  Its pretty expensive their, but it was good fun none the less.

would be a nice trip ... but you would have to get a final ticket from another unofficial source at quite a price I reckon

Ill be backing Greece this time .. mainly cos I like the holidays I have there and also cos when I backed them last time (after England lost!) they went on and won it .. would be great to see them prove it wasnt a flash in the pan.

Real shame there are no British sides whatsoever .. I cant remember the last tournament where no British sides or an Ireland team didnt qualify - is there one in the modern era?

World Cup 1994 USA? Edit: Republic of Ireland made it

Ireland qualified.

and there has never been a time where one team from the British Isles hasnt qualified since 1938. And I dont think the home nations even entered back then

Euro 2008 is dead to me now

ROI qualified for 94

Euro 1984?  Not sure we even bothered way back then!

Euro 84 was indeed the last time none of the home nations or Ireland qualified.

Republic aint British though are they?

I think were all in agreement that it is shit that none of us qualified though. My ideal tournament would definately include all the home nations and the republic.

My ideal tournament would include Scotland, Norn Ire, england and Eire, but not Wales.  As it's hilarious that they've qualified for nowt since 1958.  50 years of nothing!!!!

Think of the punch ups though! Those Welshies give as good as they get. Most dont know Fuck All about football, but they are handy.

Looking forward to this now. Got to choose some Eastern European Underdogs at some point.

there aren't really any ben, i looked :(

poland are the main underdogs, i guess

I am thinking of heading over for a weekend maybe, soak up the atmosphere without the risk of any trouble (now England haven't qualified).

I haven't been to Austria before so hoping to tick this country off the list. May support Switzerland as they play in red. We should get a Townend trip to a Swiss match and make a massive Swindon Swiss Army Flag or something.

Seedings for the draw for the 2008 European Championship in Austria and Switzerland:


Pot One:
Switzerland
Austria
Greece
Holland

Pot Two:
Croatia
Italy
Czech Republic
Sweden

Pot Three:
Germany
Romania
Portugal
Spain

Pot Four:
Poland
France
Turkey
Russia


Austria, Romania, Sweden, and Polska would be an ideal group which we may qualify from

I fear Holland, Germany, Italy, Polska though

Best group would be

Holland, Germany, Italy, France

sorry, when i say finals i mean the whoe euro 2008 not THE final.

A group of Holland, Italy, Germany/Spain and France would be ace

Think Poland will get my support out of that lot.

Have you even been to a Poland match? Have you watched Poland v Slovakia on Polish tv channel 2?

I got a ticket to a Poland game once but I had to use it to wipe my arse. It's a bugger when you run out of shit paper.

Not even Romania Sonic ?

I'm the most Polish!

gotta see it as one good thing england not being in euro, there wont be any hooligans.

I bet we get Turkey, Austria and the wops

So all hooligans are English?

wheres the "woosh" emoticon?

read the england vs croatia thread, it will make sence then

From an historical point of view I want Austria (former rulers), Germany (former rulers) and Russia (former rulers)...and then to beat the lot of them... :D

poland haven't qualified for the euros before, romania have...

good shout though, poland are probably a stronger side than the romans.

It's got to be poland. We should get behind our new brothers.

A French friend, who we watched the game with last night, raised some points not desimilar to this. He also explained that ticket prices will not be far above list price, as the English buy anything and at ridiculous prices, and there will be significantly fewer people and less atmosphere for the tournament.

Us English do have some positives, i remember when we went out of Euro 2004, the area of the Algarve we were in became quiet almost over night.

I'm more interested in travelling down to this tournament than any other in recent years. English lads out on the piss are a good laugh to an extent, but I'm more willing to dabble in less homoerotic pass times.

The Dutch are worse than us, it just never gets highlighted.

I might go over there just for a row anyway

 :wink:

lake Lucerne? lake Geneva?

I think peeople got the wrong end of the stick with my comment,

go read the england vs croatia threat and read stefpol's comments.

then you will understand.

I don't think we will win it, but who knows?

Yeah ive just read the other thread, sorry about that.

The draw is live at 11.30 on BBC Two today

Germany are bound to get the Czech Republic yet again.

Can you understand the draw system Dachauer, because I'm totally confused. :?

Very tough groups

France, Netherlands, Romania and Italy - group of death

To be honest the way they did it is a bit stupid, pick the team and then a postion for them in a group - tedious

poland germany!!! woop.

might have to make a trip

I had a feeling we would get Austria

Germany - Poland will get very nasty off the pitch I imagine. Got nasty when they played each other in 2006.

I think my team will be the Czech Republic as long as Jan Koller is still about  8)

Jus booked my flight for the Poland vs Austria game.  £180 return from Heatrow.  Fly out on the 12th June and come back on the 13th.  No hotels are available according to expedia  :oops:

Hoping we can knick a draw against the Germans, beat Austria, and then get a draw against Croatia.

Probably will lose all 3 games, but overall im hapy with the group

The France/Italy/Holland/Romania group will be interesting to watch! Gotta feel sorry for Romania really! I think that group will be the one thing that actually makes it interesting for me.

For some strange reason i always end up wanting the Czech Republic to do well.

He should be, unless he gets injured. He is now very old, slow and not really that good.

Yay to Spud, as well.

I reckon that's a cracking group for

It isn't a proper tournament without a 'group of death'. My money is on the Holland going home with Romania.

Same here. Wouldn't be too upset if France went out instead though!